They knew the history, and so they knew something like COVID was coming 15 years ago.
Bush didn't do enough - IMO because he was too busy fuckin' around with the Cheney/Rumsfeld project to conquer the oil world.
Obama took it more seriously, and managed to do more, but still not enough - IMO because of little public interest in it, and (largely) Republican fuckery, ie: "sequestration" as a means to hamstring progressive policies.
45* comes along and shit-cans the whole structure - on purpose - in order to destabilize the government and open the way to authoritarian plutocratic rule.
And now we're on our way to a million dead Americans, as our system of democratic self-governance is teetering on the brink.
The last 3 chapters plus the afterword go a long way towards explaining how stupidly we've been acting.
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